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The Offer
- Giant Eagle is offering an instant discount of $10 when you purchase a $200 Visa gift card
The Fine Print
- Valid in store only
- Limit one per household
- Valid until 3/11/2020
Our Verdict
Make sure to use a card that earns at a high rate on grocery stores. There is a $6.95 activation fee.
Hat tip to GC Galore
I think they caught onto the fiasco from last year and haven’t had a discount on VGC online since. That was my first major MS and moneymaker rake. Since I don’t think it will happen ever again, it was $15 off $50 VGC.
Just got back from Giant Eagle. No VGC’s to be found. I didn’t ask anyone. But, I went to where they are normally displayed and all I saw were Giant Eagle’s GC’s.
In some stores, the $200 VGCs are all kept behind the counter at the customer service counter, not on the regular gift card rack- just depends on the store. I’d try there.
But don’t you have to pay xtra for the S200 card?
I mean it’s not like you get a $200 value for $190, is it?
Well, it has a $6.95 fee. Only you can decide whether or not that’s worth it to you.
I see.
Thanks.
You buy the card for $196.95 ($200 + $6.95 activation fee – $10 instant savings). You’ll earn $9.85 with a 5% cash back (ie Chase Freedom if purchased at Get Go) and earn up to $12 in free gas ($0.40 off per gallon up to 30 gallons).
So you buy giftcard at 5% cashback for 190$? how do you convert 200$ to cash?
See if someone will trade you $200 for it.
The question is- is the limit just one per transaction, so you can keep on doing multiple transactions? Or is it linked to your Aadvantage card, so you can really only use this once the whole week? If you can keep doing it this is actually a really good deal, since it stacks with Fuelperks (which is worth it by itself even without the discount).
In the past, it’s been one-per-transaction.
In the past you could indeed go ham by doing multiple transactions (usually at night if not wanting to hold up the line) as long as you were using a different card in between transactions. But these offers with the “one per household” language recently, have been limited to one per advantage card. I’m kinda curious if it is indeed one per household in the sense that can two people with the same address but with different advantage cards get the deal.
i could verify that it is one per account. just tested it out
I tried to buy a second card today at a different store and was charged the full activation fee without the discount.
Fine print: Giant eagle=/=Giant food=/=Stop&Shop
No, Giant Eagle means…Giant Eagle. Just because the same company owns those stores does not mean it is on sale at all 3. In fact, I don’t see anything in the Stop and Shop circular about this,
=/= means “does not equal”
The question is- is the limit just one per transaction, so you can keep on doing multiple transactions? Or is it linked to your Aadvantage card, so you can really only use this once the whole week?
Recently, offers worded like this have been limited by advantage card.
It’s linked to your advantage card.
Pretty sure “=/=” means “is not equal to.”
Then what was the purpose of his post…Doc said it is on sale at Giant Eagle, why would anyone think it would also be on sale at Stop and Shop. Are we going to also say it is not on sale, at Kroger, Acme, and ShopRite too?
I’m not the comment’s poster, but I’m guessing that the purpose is clarity/helpfulness toward people who might be prone to making a reasonable error.
They’re not owned by the same company. You’re confusing “Giant Eagle” with “Giant.” They’re 2 completely unrelated grocery store chains who happen to have a similar name.
I think OP is aware of this, but rather preemptively letting others know since inevitably, many readers post that they couldn’t find/get the offer at their “giant” store, or some variation of that.